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• Defeat is worse than death because you have to live with defeat. -- Bill Musselma
• Mere life is not victory, mere death is not defeat.
• If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. -- Simone De Beauvoi
• If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. DE BEAUVOIR
• Victory or defeat!
• I would rather suffer defeat than have cause to be ashamed of victory. -- Quintus Curtiu
• Never let an inanimate object defeat you...
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumph
  even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat....
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure .
  . . than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat....